Mop



R. F. HENN March 22, 1938.

MOP

I Filed March8, 1935 Patented Mar. 22, 1938 I r Fir UNITED STATES FATE MOP Ralph F. Henn, Geneva; Ohio Applicatioh March 8, 1935; Serial No. 10,084

i Claims; (01. 15-147) This invention relates to mops, particularly In the preferred embodiment of the invention dust mops, and among other objects aims to prothe wire forming the resilient tapered neck [6 is vide an improved mophaving a swab which may continued to form the swab frame I2 which is be easily. removed and having a swab carrier or nothing more than a wire'loop. Obviously, manframe which is flexibly mounted on thehandle ufacturing economies are realized by making the so asto permit'movement thereof in many diwire frame integral with the connector; how- "-"rfections, thus permitting the mop to bend'or ever, it is within the'scope of the present inven- .twist relative to the handle to conform to the tion to make the wire frame a separate piece varying angles of surfaces'being cleaned by the and unite it to the connector. In the preferred r'nop. The invention has other objects which embodiment, a single'piece of wire is bent ihtern} will be pointed out in the following description mediate its ends and then two of its lengths are of a preferred embodiment thereof. twisted spirally to form the handle socket and In the: accompany drawing.'-' one end of said wireterminates at the end of the Fig. 1 is aplan view of themop, the yarn theretapered neck It; said end being formed into a T3 of being indicated more or less diagrammatical hook. Which es in the pl of the D- The 1y,tne larger portion of the handle being omitend of the wire extension which forms the swab ted; frame 12 is provided with an eye as which is Fig. 2 is a plan view on an enlarged scale showadapted to engage the hook H to close the loop. N i'ng'the swab frame and the handle connector or Instead of a hook and eye connection, two hooks socket member and omitting the swab; or any other simple means may be used for con-. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 but showing necting the ends of the frame together; a hook one end' of the swabframedisconnected from the arid ey Connection is preferred use of its handle cohnector to facilitate placing or removal eXtreme s p c y and ease of anufacture. of swab; When desired the loop may be opened by merely .F'ig. 4' is a fragmentary View showing the condisenga ing the eye from e ec whereupon struchoncr the swab; and the swab frame will have the form shown in Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail showing the hook i W th h ffi end ready for sert on in holding the end of t b the core of the swab. Obviously, the eye I 8 should frame, be of sufiiciently small'diameter to pass freely Referring particularly to the drawing, there is through t Wire Core iii of the swab, Which is 30 shown a mop comprising a handle i0, handle coninserted 1110011 its frame y a Pushing etien. If hector or socket member H, a swab frame 12 and e W e is bent so that When the D is pe 3. b l3, Th b comprises il d i the wire naturally assumes a curvilinear form forming a core M on which cotton yarn I5 is With a a w p between the ee endcf the :5 secured prior to the coiling operation by the D and the socket, as shown, Closing o the process disclosed in the patent to Carter No. 1001;) a te the Swab s place Will be e y 1,209,639, th lt being th t, th yarn facilitated and opening of the loop will also be pletely covers the coiled wire and extends outmade easier, as the Wire Will hot spring p wardly from the wire core in all directions. as With great force; and Of Course nsertion and redisdosed in my p t N 1,936,509 dated N moval of the swab will also be easier if the wire vember 21, 1933. loop is easy to control. However, it is within the The handle connector or socket member ll scope Of the invention to e p y a W re frame is preferably formed of heavy nickel-plated wire With I10 natural tendency to form a pcoiled in a double spiral coil, with a tapered neck As stated above, the swab s ounted on a 47' It at one end. Thediameterof the spiral coils sp al w e which has a normal length is such that the end of the handle ill is easily greater than t perimeter of the sWabframe received within the coils, particularly if the hant at s t s the swab, when in p s as a die is introduced with a slight twisting motion. total over all lengt p e ab y several inches A reverse twist of the handle will, however, cause n ex ess Of th length of t e Wi e frame It. The so the coils to tighten and grip the handle very seresult is that when the swab is inserted on its curely so that removal is impossible. The tapered frame, it mu t be compressed longitudinally to neck It serves as a stop to the handle and propermit the y to gage With the hook I! vides a resilient connecting means between the and hence the swab is permanently pressed at socket member I and theswab frame l2, as will both ends against the end of the connector so that be described. 7 the yarn of the swab completely hides the connection between the swab frame and the handle socket member. The yarn may also be long enough to normally close the space in the interior of the swab frame, although this is not necessary.

When the user of one of these mops desires to remove the swab, this is easily done by merely disengaging the eye I! from its hook, whereupon the loop more or less straightens out and the detached swab is then easily pushed off of its frame. The swab may be put in a washing machine and washed and may even be wrung through a wringer, before replacing it upon the swab frame. The ends of the wire of the core M are turned inwardly so that they will not catch on anything or scratch furniture. A further and very important advantage of the mop is the extreme flexibility of the connection between the handle and the mop frame. This connection may be bent in all directions radially relative to the handle, the result being that the mop frame may swing in any direction with respect to the handle, thus permitting the swab to conform to surfaces at various inclinations relative to the handle axis. Furthermore, the connection is unbreakable, the resiliency of the wire being such that it will yield without ever breaking. Moreover, the wire loop itself is flexible, permitting a slight yielding thereof to blows. The swab frame is always protected by the yarn of the swab and can never be exposed unless the user forcibly pulls apart the two juxtaposed ends of the swab which are normally substantially in contact adjacent the hook and eye connection. The described mop is extremely inexpensive to manufacture and has many advantages over mops heretofore known.

Obviously, the present invention may be embodied in many forms neither shown nor described but within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described one embodiment of my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A mop frame comprising, in combination, a handle-receiving socket made of a resilient wire wrapped in a spiral coil; a hook on said socket, and a swab holder formed from an integral extension of said socket, which extension is bent around in a substantially circular flexible loop and has its free end detachably engaged with said hook.

2. A mop frame comprising, in combination, a handle-receiving socket; a flexible wire frame in the form of a loop, one end of which is permanently secured to the socket and the other end of which is adapted to be threaded into a swab and is detachably secured to the socket; the wire of said frame being so bent that when the detachable end is freed from the socket, the loop opens to provide a relatively narrow gap which is permanently maintained narrow by the resilience of the wire, said gap facilitating insertion and removal of a swab and connecting and disconnecting the detachable end.

3. A mop frame comprising, in combination, a handle-receiving socket; said socket having a flexible neck made of coiled wire; said wire extending beyond one end of the neck and bent around to form a loop; a hook projecting from the aforesaid end of said neck substantially in the plane of said loop; the free end of said wire bein detachably connected to the hook.

4. A mop comprising, in combination, a resilient elongated member formed into a loop with its ends separably united to form a swab frame which is adapted to be mounted on one end of a handle; and a swab supported on the swab frame and having an internal expansile coil spring of such length that it is compressed when on the frame, thereby normally completely covering the frame.

5. A mop frame comprising, in combination, a handle-receiving socket made from a piece of resilient wire doubled and bent to form a double spiral coil; one end of said wire terminating near the end of the socket opposite to the end which receives the handle and having a hook formed at its extremity; the other end portion of the wire projecting a sufficient distance beyond the hook to provide a swab-holding loop; the extremity of said other end portion having a hook thereon to engage the first named hook; the resilience of said wire resisting engagement of the hooks so that when said hooks are disengaged the loop will open and remain open until deliberately closed.

RALPH F. HENN. 

